After more than a year's delay, the Senate approved the promotion of a general who commanded a base where a gay soldier was beaten to death in 1999. The officer, Maj. Gen. Robert T. Clark, commanded the base, Fort Campbell, Ky., when the soldier,...

The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee has delayed for the second time a vote on the promotion of an Army general who commanded a base where a gay soldier was beaten to death by a fellow soldier. The delay gives the committee more time...

Groups that oppose the promotion of an Army general who commanded a base where a gay soldier was beaten to death failed today to have the nomination hearings opened. The groups wanted to express their anger over the incident. The officer, Maj....

The Army has denied a $1.8 million wrongful death claim filed by the mother of a soldier killed in his barracks. ''There is no legal basis to support payment of the claim,'' Col. John H. Belser, chief of the Army's Tort Claims Division, wrote to...

The Army general who commanded Fort Campbell, Ky., when a gay private was murdered last year is being reassigned for the second time, this time to a post in Texas. The officer, Maj. Gen. Robert T. Clark, commanded Fort Campbell until June, and...

The Pentagon announced an ''anti-harassment action plan'' today that would require military commanders to discipline service members who engaged in, condoned or ignored anti-gay behavior. But the plan was short on details, and Carol DiBattiste,...

An Army investigation of events surrounding the murder of a gay private by a fellow soldier at a base in Kentucky has exonerated all officers of blame and has concluded that no climate of homophobia existed at the base, Pentagon officials said today....

Because of an editing error, an article on May 28 about Calpernia Addams, who is in the process of changing sexes to female from male, and the murder of her boyfriend, Pfc. Barry Winchell, included an erroneous statement about a meeting between...

July 2, 2000, Sunday

This was the most sensitive article on transgender issues that I have seen in a mainstream publication. You have illustrated the complexities of gender and sexuality and the ways in which transsexuals get used and abused by assimilationist gay...

June 18, 2000, Sunday

Many thanks to David France (May 28) for a deeply touching and unusual story. Congratulations to Calpernia Sarah Addams for her courage and for remaining faithful to her dream. May the horrible death of Pfc. Barry Winchell shock us all into realizing...